Modern Women, Modern Work : Domesticity, Professionalism, and American Writing, 189-195 /

Focusing on literary authors, social reformers, journalists, and anthropologists, Francesca Sawaya demonstrates how women intellectuals in early twentieth-century America combined and criticized ideas from both the Victorian "cult of domesticity" and the modern "culture of professiona...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sawaya, Francesca
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Geschichte 1850-1950.
Häuslichkeit > Motiv
Frauenroman
Beruf > Motiv
Women in literature.
Women > Employment.
Women authors, American.
Women and literature.
Authorship > Sex differences.
American literature > Women authors.
American literature.
Authorship.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
authorship.
Écrivaines americaines > Biographies.
Art d'ecrire > Differences entre sexes > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Litterature americaine > 20e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Femmes et litterature > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Écrits de femmes americains > Histoire et critique.
Femmes dans la litterature.
Écrivaines americaines.
Art d'ecrire.
Litterature americaine > 20e siecle.
Femmes > Travail.
Femmes et litterature.
Écrits de femmes americains.
Authorship
American literature > 20th century.
Women authors, American > Biography.
Authorship > Sex differences > History > 20th century.
American literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Women > Employment > United States > History > 20th century.
Women and literature > United States > History > 20th century.
American literature > Women authors > History and criticism.
USA.
USA
United States.
Biographies.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Biography
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction. We Other Victorians
  • Chapter I. Domesticity, Cultivation, and Vocation in Jane Addams and Sarah Orne Jewett
  • Chapter 2 Situated Expertise
  • Chapter 3. Naturalist Sentimentalism and Cultural Authority in Frank Norris and George Santayana
  • Chapter 4. "Going over to the Standard"
  • Chapter 5. Objective Domestic Critique
  • Afterword
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments.

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